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 GMOs > Off-site Links

• DEFRA
  Consultation on GM crop co-existence  Consultation document  (PDF 516K : 2min@56K)
  Pages 37 to 44 : Plans for Organic Crop Contamination, at 1000 times the current detectable level.
  Pages 45 to 54 : Plans for compensation.

• Friends of the Earth  gm consultation guide 

• GM Freeze campaign  http://www.gmfreeze.org/index.asp
  GM Freeze campaign on Defra Consultation  http://www.gmfreeze.org/page.asp?id=301&iType 

• GreenPeace  GM crops and food 
  GreenPeace  Farm Scale \Trials 
  "In the spring of 1999, following widespread condemnation of the development of commercial GM crops in the UK, the government launched a programme of farm-scale trials. From the start, they were fundamentally flawed as the government didn't believe GM crops could have an impact on the environment so the trials were not designed to assess many of the more serious risks GM technology poses." 11th Aug, 2006 
  GreenPeace  UK Rice contamination 
  
  "Will the government's new coexistence proposals, designed to make growing GM crops easier, prevent this sort of contamination in the future? Or is their strategy to allow widespread contamination until there is no GM-free environment to protect? Both the US and Chinese rice contamination scandals originated in experimental planting for study - in the case of the US this was from farm trials in 2001 and now five years later contamination is clearly widespread.
  If scientists monitoring unapproved varieties are unable to prevent massive contamination problems, does the government really expect us to believe that Britain's farmers will do so much better?" 18th Sept, 2006

• Organic Consumers inactive herbicide may become reactivated inside you 

• Responsible Technology http://www.responsibletechnology.org/GMFree/Home/index.cfm 
  Responsible Technology http://www.responsibletechnology.org/utility/showArticle/?objectID=320
  
  "In June, a German court ordered Monsanto to make a study public, in which rats fed GM corn developed kidney inflammation, altered blood cell counts and organ lesions. These and other changes suggested possible allergies, infections, toxins, anemia or blood pressure problems. The rats were fed corn genetically engineered to produce a pesticide called Bt-toxin. A French expert who reviews GM safety assessments for the government says that these and other studies indicate that Bt crops create reactions similar to chemical pesticides. Monsanto, however, was able to convince regulators to overlook the findings using arguments that were widely criticized as unscientific."